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July 07, 2009 07:51:13pm |
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>>>For religion I prefer Meher Baba, "Everything is nothing, nothing is everything."
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Just a passing fancy, since you alluded, perhaps it might be an idea to have a personal plan for "the end game." I don't think government will bail us out when the man come round.>>>
F-16s won't do any good either, so there goes the GOP. The hate base seems to insist on reservations for Dante's Cornice of Wrath. Ouch.
Meher Baba (The God-Man, Messiah, Christ, Avatar) seems like a false profit, or at least a slippery slope. He seems to have said/signed near his end, "Do not forget that I am God." Hindu-Sufi syncretics can be tricky though.
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July 07, 2009 08:17:42pm |
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I agree, albeit reluctantly, that good ol' Meher Baba was another dead end...
How 'bout this caveat:
"Everyone's wrong about everything."
Anyway, we're in the 6th trump and heading fast for the 7th...
stick around any maybe you'll get to see the actual Anti-Christ and all that, if you believe... in all that.
I don't know anymore...
but the children believed...
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Styrofoam Cueball |
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July 08, 2009 05:54:35pm |
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Mason's Children?? And was that song really about the Floyd's Nick Mason??? ;-)
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cream-puff-war |
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July 08, 2009 06:36:16pm |
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Come to think of it (I just got back from work), Mason's Children belongs on that "lost" debut list we were assembling!
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Earl B. Powell |
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July 07, 2009 09:08:17pm |
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What do you mean dead end? You don't give your soul to huckster like Meher, just benefit from the philosophy offered. The messenger is always there to be shot, or crucified, it's the message to keep your eyes fixed on. Everything else is just slight of hand.
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July 07, 2009 09:48:40pm |
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good point.
But one day back in '83 I tried showing up and hanging out at a hippie semi-political hangout wearing a Baba button, a smile and keepig my mouth closed, as though I had taken a temporary vow of silence...
and those boys (one still a close friend) didn't like my act at all...
and almost threw me bopdily out unless I dropped the act (they knew what I was trying to do) and start talking like a normal human being.
Look, only Meher Baba is/was Meher baba...
but we're all in the body of Christ, Amen.
Praise Allah.
(well, scratch that last comment!)
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spacedface |
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July 08, 2009 04:28:29am |
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The messenger isn't always there to take abuse for scapegoaters, and the actual messengers aren't hucksters.
As for the other comment on praise, Allah is the Arabic word for God. In Hebrew the cognate is Elah; in Aramaic Alaha. In older German God is from ghut, "that which is invoked" -- similar to the Semitic, and apparently to the Aryan/Iranian Khuda.
Even Jews and Christians who speak Arabic use Allah, so the word itself should not cause problems for people unless they just have to take a tribal stand against Arabs and Semitic languages.
I haven't found a great extended treatment on the topic, but the best short ditty I've found (Wikipedia has several good pages too) is "One God, Many Names." The source may cause undue anxiety for some though:
http://www.zaytuna.org/seasonsjournal/seasons3/44-54%20One%20God%20Many%20Names.pdfWell, let's get on with the show.
This post was modified by spacedface on 2009-07-08 11:28:29
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